Aug 8 (Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp
reported an unexpected 5.1 percent rise in quarterly revenue,
helped by growth in its digital real estate business and in its
news division that houses the Wall Street Journal and the New
York Post.

An extra week in the fourth quarter ended June 30 also
helped the New York-based company's revenue rise in the quarter
and snap a streak of five straight quarters of declines.

The company's revenue rose to $2.23 billion from $2.12
billion. Analysts on average were expecting revenue to fall to
$2.06 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Revenue in News Corp's news and information division, its
biggest, rose 1 percent to $1.42 billion. This is the first time
the unit's revenue has increased since the company split from
Twenty-First Century Fox in mid-2013.

The unit also includes the Dow Jones Newswires as well as
the Times and the Sun in the UK and newspapers in Murdoch's
native Australia.

The company emphasized that global print ad trends remained
"challenging", but said it would continue its aggressive growth
in digital.

"Digital subscriptions continue to grow and now account for
approximately 45% of the subscriber base, while print sales have
also risen tangibly in recent months," Chief Executive Robert
Thomson said in a statement.